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compass plant
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- a coarse plant (Silphium laciniatum) of the composite family, with large, bristly leaves and heads of yellow flowers, found on the prairies of central U.S.: the leaves reputedly point in a north-and-south direction
- any of various other plants whose leaves supposedly point to the north and south
See compass plant in American Heritage Dictionary 4